The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is due to rule next week in a case that could decide just how far prosecutors can go to pierce a corporate executive’s attorney-client privilege.

Both sides have filed their briefs in the case, in which federal prosecutors used the company’s outside counsel to testify against and convict Ian Norris, then-CEO of the Morgan Crucible Co. in the U.K. The company was accused of price-fixing on carbon products, such as brushes used in electric motors.

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